Author: Jim Meko
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Open Letter to the San Francisco Planning Commission
Western SoMa Citizens Planning Task Force Chair, Jim Meko. By Jim Meko October 12, 2009 During the dot com boom, speculative land use development swept over the formerly industrial portions of San Francisco. Families and low income populations were displaced, service and light industrial jobs were lost and conflicts between competing uses were aggravated. No…
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Eastern Neighborhoods: Lessons Learned?
By Jim Meko November 25, 2008 Eight long years of focus groups, workshops and public hearings have sucked the very last few ounces of passion from the land use wars that once dominated the headlines and swept a progressive majority into city hall but, as the Eastern Neighborhoods rezoning process limps to its weary conclusion…
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MUNI’s proposed route realignment
may sink SoMa’s housing boomJim Meko By Jim Meko March 3, 2008 Last week, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) announced the first major realignment of MUNI routes in 25 years. The multimillion dollar Transportation Effectiveness Program (TEP) has proposed the elimination of a half dozens lines, service cuts on more than a dozen others and increasing the frequency of…